Interview with FilmMakers Magazine

Apparently I'm famous now.
There's an interview with me over at FilmMakers.com regarding my script
"NO LIMIT: The Extremely Short Story of my Poker Career" which they chose as one of their Top 25 Finalists in the 2006 American Gem Short Screenplay Competition.
They also named "The Making of Lemonade" to their Top 101 list, so they are now my new best friends.

To read the interview CLICK THE TITLE of this post or go to:
http://www.filmmakers.com/contests/short/2006/interview/scott_magie.htm

American Gem Short Screenplay Competition

2 scripts in the Top 101 list (out of 1200) felt good.

NO LIMIT named a Top 25 Finalist felt even better.

And finding out it didn't win, well that felt... appropriate, seeing that the script deals with the topic of failure and success.
In the end, the main character (ME) realizes that maybe being THE BEST at something isn't as important as he once thought.
When the script won at Woods Hole, people found that contrast rather amusing.

The conversations went something like this:

"So what's your script about?"

"Failure... and that being the BEST at things isn't as important as I once thought."

"But it won, right?"

"Yeah."

"So much for that whole failure idea, right?"

"Well..."

"That's pretty funny!"

"Well, it IS a comedy."